Community Publications (Newspaper) - March 19, 1969, Chicago, Illinois Page School busing in Chicago re- cently marked its first sary and any attempt to ate its faults and virtues brings on Excessive Headache No 1544 Proponents acclaim it a its nal detractors insist their case has been proved the like is in the eye of the be- holder Those without dwell on the fact that in spite of some the system must be a partial so many persons highly turbed at the original idea now are complacent about it It was on March that the first shift of pupils by bus to schools outside Busing Survives Its First Year their own neighborhoods spawned hostility among the students and their parents in the receiving and the children involved when they were and generally in the new ings The idea for busing pupils which arose in the Austin area was sponsored by School Super- intendent James F Redmond who saw in it a way to relieve overcrowded class rooms and a means of mandating integration in predominantly white schools f f f The originally con- to relieve the ing of Emmett 5500 but May 512 S Lavergne Spencer 214 N Lavergne later were ed in the project The plan originally proposed by Redmond called for the transportation to o u t -o f -t h e- neighborhood schools of 1.035 some from areas outside the Northwest area After two weeks of hearings in which vociferous partisans voiced their the idea was tabled Principal tion was that the if meant the death of the neighborhood school tem Eventually a compromise proposal was made for Austin and northwest side areas but when it came up in the board of education a tie vote resulted and action was delayed again After five days of special ings a plan evolved It called for busing on a voluntary basis under which 573 pupils were to be bused from two overcrowded Austin area all of which were black in to eight other Northwest area schools All of the receiving schools had vacant classrooms The plan called for 317 pupils from first through 6th grade to be sent from May school to five other and Thorpe Spencer was to be relieved of 256 of its pupils who would be transported to and Smyser Hostility flared but after a week of preparation the shift became a reality although ing like the anticipated number of pupils took part in the plan It was estimated that fewer than half of the pupils called for participated If the plan was resented by the affected families and their discomfort was nothing compared with that of the children Their first days at the new schools were memorable for the greeable reception accorded them Crowds gathered at both ends of the line and at the receiving end and even tened bombings were the The disaffection no longer is evident and the hubbub has been succeeded by sometimes grudging but eventual I hearted support How close the plan as come to meeting Redmond's ed benefits is something else again He that the tem would have three desired it would relieve ing at the Spencer and May that it would provide stabilization for the Austin cial and achieve gration in the receiving schools he was right on but one count The anticipated gration was accomplished Because of the residential changes in the south Austin May and Spencer are more crowded than over before Stabilization in the area is counted impossible for the same reason The increase in black population has brought about a situation despite the the percentage of Negro students at May has en from 83.9 in late 1967 to 95.9 in the fall of 1968 The new tio was relative at Spencer Another loud objection to the eventual Redmond plan was the cost it was would total to a month Actually the cost has stabilized at about monthly At the receiving schools it is the opinion of the educators Fire Hits Locke Despite relative calm by Northwest Side dents in schools receiving bused students from May and Spencer police and fire have blamed a Saturday blaze at Locke 2845 N on busing opponents In lower firemen of 22nd battalion guish last of fire in principal's office which caused some damage corridor near burned out office has hastily painted ing slogan on wall by Spring Has Sprung Nancy Anne of 1730 N easy to sec that Nancy Anne scorns calendared makes no secret of her elation over the tardy events as she pirouettes in using her arrival of warm weather Spring will not bow discarded outer coal as an in officially until tomorrow but it's that the busing has had a effect on the buses pupils They contend that since their classes now are pupils most in need of it get sess special attention and pupils whose earlier school career was spent in overcrowded rooms do not respond too ly to teaching After the principals in- are the them- and apparently they have adjusted happily Com- plaints are they are graciously by formerly hostile in the parents have reached the conclusion that their offspring are gettin a better education than ever be- fore NORTHWEST JOURNAL Vol 10 No 25 4047 W NORTH AVE AR MARCH 1969 By Mail a year At Newsstands ISc a copy 16 PAGES TWO SECTIONS Area Police Drive To Clear Streets Of Abandoned Cars Working 10 hours a day city tow trucks hauled away more than 200 abandoned cars last Thurs day and Friday in the Austin police dis- Yet to be towed 510 autos cluttering West-Northwest Side in the district and taking up valuable parking according to Police cer Albert head of the loth district auto unit A similar situation is faced by 14th district police who counted 650 vehicles Arthur auto unit officer for Shakespeare dis- stated the increase in abandoned cars this passes even that of the year of the big snow and is 80 per cent more than last Hundreds of calls a week are received at the two police dis- from irate citizens com- plaining about abandoned cars on their streets are being abandoned daily on city streets faster than we can tow them said Officer Krajecke Tow trucks are assigned on a rotating basis to the city's 20 police districts to give each district a share of the noted Krajecke Compounding the difficulty is the number of derelict trucks Heavy trucks and those el with junk take much longer cutting down the number pf passenger cars that can be towed away in the time allotted for tow truck operation in a given police point out to this the lack of trucks to serve entire number of trained personnel to operate trucks and lack of sufficient storage space in police auto pounds already and ll get some idea of the we face in solving the of cutting down on the of derelict vehicles waiting pointed out a police department spokesman Cooperating with ward superintendents and crews re- all abandoned cars noted m cleanup and street sweeping operations Listed by the department of streets as one of the reasons for the huge backlog is the number of immediate tows required of the small fleet of tow trucks This includes cars involved in accidents or crimes and those that create a hazard by blocking traffic or having broken glass Immediate tows amounted to last year Added to the abandoned car operations n the city kept tow trucks busy around the clock Officer Krajecke issued a yarning to owners of vehicles abandon their cars on treets in the Austin district of abandoned cars owed to the auto pound will ace a fine of for the towing for abandonment and a dollar a day for storage stated the Austin ice officer Owners of abandoned cars acking license plates will be raced through serial numbers n motors and they will be sent added Krajecke Cars with old or with current Jates will be checked out with he secretary of state's office nd the listed owner sent a he concluded Somebody Lose A The end of the line for thousands of cars abandoned on city streets is the police auto 4615 one of five run by the city of Chicago Upper tow truck brings in another abandoned auto adding to the already jamming all ble space in the compound Stolen cars wait for owners to claim others await consignment to the junk heap Cars are moved into and out of the lot at the rate of more than 350 a week The Division pound serves as a repository for cars picked up in the 14th district and 15th as well as three other police districts on the Northwest Side It's Success Week At Orr High This March 17 through is entitled at Orr High 1040 N Keeler The entire student body works together on various projects built around that theme The events of the week aie sponsored by the History club and by the Student council Just recently Orr won al recognition through these The Freedoms tion at Valley Forge awarded Orr a George Washington al That is the second time Orr was so honored Scheduled for the week are and poster contests During division Thursday the entire student body will vote for the girl and boy Likely to Culmination of the week's events will be the Spartan on Orr's annual open house The evening will begin at 7 p.m with a stage Good Old A fashion sports classroom displays and re- will be available and neighbors of Orr are ed to the school that evening I IN KOREA Army Cpl John C son of Mrs Dorothy 4328 Augusta was signed to the 2nd Infantry sion in Korea f Karen s in Good Hands young Karen Gross who faces 15th skin graft appears more con- cerned that her Community Publications rier route will be in good hands than over her hospitalization whose right arm was badly burned as a was to have received new skin grafts during operation yesterday at St hospital who delivers Northwest shows her two brothers Randy and Frank proper way to fold and stack papers in carrier bag Boys ly assist Karen in delivering her 200 papers Karen is daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward 1929 N Karlov Pool Planned For NW Side A new neighborhood ming pool to be located at laski and Division has been in- cluded in the Chicago Park dis- 1969 construction gram The park district is currently negotiating to purchase the land which was the former site for a proposed Pioneer YMCA Pioneer Y recently closed its doors because of a lack of nances According to Daniel vice president of the park district's board of the pool will be one of six to be built this year lie estimated the cost of each at approximately The which will be 42 by 75 are expected to be ready by June 28
